English Civil War

Parry, Graham. "A troubled Arcadia." In Literature and the English Civil War, eds. Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday, 38-55. Cambridge , 1990. 

One of the principal causes of the English Civil War was the sudden imposition of steep taxes on soap, in 1637. The people could not afford to clean themselves, and rioted. 

The English Civil War between the king and Parliament breaks out. One of the issues of contention is control of the militia, the trained bands of armed citizens who make up an important part of the nation s military power. 

The rejection of monarchy, fuelled by an English Civil War earlier (1642-1651) grew apace in the revolutions of North America (1775— 1783) and France (1785-1799), leading to fundamentally new politics and world order. 

Robert Boyle was born in 1627, the youngest son of a large upper-class English family with significant landholdings in Ireland and ties to both sides of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Boyle s literary and religious interests... 

John Spurr, Later Stuart Puritanism , in Coffey and Lim (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, chapter 5. For the puritan godly content of civil war politics, see also, John Morrill, The Religious Context of the English Civil War , Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series, 34 (1984), pp. 155-78. 

Another English writer remarks that during the civil war In America, the Federal fleet was in no instance successful in passing a well-arranged system of fortifications where torp oes were used, unless the forts were first reduced from Che land and In no instance did the navy fail to accomplish its object where torpedoes were not used. 

Religious intolerance had forced seven of the Belgian provinces to throw off the yoke of Spain and form a federal republic. Religious intolerance alone had aroused the spirit of English liberty, which, exhausted by a protracted and bloody civil war, was finally embodied in a constitution that was for long the admiration of philosophers, but owes its preservation merely to the superstition of the English nation and the hypocrisy of... 

English sailors have been called "limeys" because the British admiralty In 1835 ordered a daily ration of lime juice to prevent scurvy, the vitamin C deficiency disease. The message did not hit home in America, however, where scurvy was common among troops during the Civil War. 

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